Genesis 12
The Call of Abram
1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
Save some time and go down the road he has shown you!
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring [a] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. 9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
Hello my friends, I am rediscovering the life and times of this historical figure called Abram. We need to realize that our God knows best! Your best interests are his priority! When God tells us to do something it is always to move us to a place that is the best for us, you can trust him.
Look at Abram, this scripture says ” 4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran” Now it is true that men lived longer in these days, but still he was seventy five years old! It is typical of our God to stretch us..
Think about all of Abrams family there, he had resources, help from all of his relatives, he had established his herds there. I think in that day his people had it all mapped out, they knew where the water was, firewood, gardens growing, the terrain, he had spent seventy five years there getting established! God says go to the place I will show you, he didn’t even give him a travel brochure on how great the new place would be, no idea except that Abram knew that God promised he would be blessed if he went!
2 “I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
We do not know how much deliberation, thought and time passed. Can you imagine? Have you ever moved? It is amazing the stuff you gather and do not realize it till you moved! Seventy five years of work, tilling, herding, and I love the next verse!
4 So Abram left, as the LORD had told him;
Yes regardless of it all this man Abram, believed God! It is recorded that this belief, trusting God at his word later in his life was accounted to him for righteousness!
Everything else aside, he left. The first secret, if you will of Abram’s life is that he listened friends! He trusted God!
He abandoned all safew havens he had spent his whole life creating and followed the adventure God had mapped out! He didn’t even know where he was taking his whole show, but he obeyed. This lesson is given to us in whole, we know that God was right, just as he is in our lives!
What is God telling you to do?
Trust him he knows what he is doing!
Follow him, allow him to bless you!
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